Public Health Act, 1961 9 & 10 ELiz. 2 CH. 64 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS PART I GENERAL Section 1. Construction. 2. Interpretation. 3. Extent. PART II SANITATION AND BUILDINGS Building regulations -1. Power to make building regulations. 5. Application to building regulations of statutory provisions concerning building byelaws. 6. Relaxation of building regulations. 7. Appeal against refusal by local authority to relax building regulations. 8. Advertisement of proposal to relax building regulations. 9. Consultation with Building Regulations Advisory Committee and other bodies. 10. Minor amendments. 11. Building regulations : transitionals and consequential amend- ments. Sewers, drains and sanitary conveniences 12. Contribution to cost of sewering highway. 13. Contribution to cost of sewer in land subsequently laid out as street. 14. Evasion of liability to contribute under two last foregoing sections. 15. Recovery of cost of maintaining public sewers. 16. Examination and testing of drains. 17. Summary power to remedy stopped-up drains. 18. Power to repair drains and private sewers. A CH. 64 Public Health Act, 1961 9 & 10 ELIZ. 2 Section 19. Disconnection of drains. 20. Fine for improper construction or repair of water closets or soil pipes. 21. Closet accommodation for separate dwellings. 22. Power to cleanse or repair drains. 23. Loan of temporary sanitary conveniences. Buildings and structures 24. Section 58 of Public Health Act, 1936, to apply to buildings constituting a danger to persons in streets. 25. Emergency measures to deal with dangerous buildings. 26. Defective premises. 27. Ruinous and dilapidated buildings and neglected sites. 28. New building overreaching adjacent chimneys. 29. Powers of local authority in relation to demolitions. 30. Cellars and rooms below subsoil water level. 31. Food storage accommodation in new houses. 32. Food storage accommodation in existing houses. 33. Provision of bathrooms. Accumulations of rubbish 34. Accumulations of rubbish. Filthy or verminous premises or articles 35. Filthy or verminous premises. 36. Power to require vacation of premises during fumigation. 37. Prohibition of sale of verminous articles. PART III PREVENTION AND NOTIFICATION OF DISEASE 38. Power of justice to order a medical examination. 39. Information to be furnished by occupier in case of notifiable disease or food poisoning. 40. Exclusion of children from places of entertainment or assembly. 41. Compensation for stopping employment to prevent spread of disease. 42. Inducements to children offered by dealers in rags and old clothes. PART IV STREETS AND PUBLIC PLACES Streets 43. Guard rails in private streets. 44. Barriers in streets. 45. Attachment of street lamps to buildings. n 9 & 10 ELiz. 2 Public Health Act, 1961 CH. 64 Section 46. Forecourts abutting on streets. 47. Urgent repairs to private streets. 48. Pavement lights and ventilators. 49. Use by local authorities of vehicles and appliances on foot- ways and bridleways. 50. New streets : separate sewers for foul water and surface water. 51. Refuse and litter bins. Parks and Open Spaces 52. Management of parks and pleasure grounds. 53. Closing of parks and pleasure grounds. 54. Boating pools and lakes. PART V TRADE EFFLUENTS Exemptions under Act of 1937 55. Charges in cases exempted under s. 4 of Act of 1937. 56: Withdrawal of exemptions after two years' disuse. 57. Installation of inspection chambers and meters on exempted premises. Trade effluents byelaws 58. Withdrawal of power to make byelaws under Act of 1937. Conditions attached to consents 59. Conditions which may be attached to consents under Act of 1937. 60. Power to vary conditions. 61. Appeals under s. 3 of Act of 1937. 62. Postponement of right to discharge trade effluents in special cases. Farming, scientific research and other special cases 63. Effluents from farms and premises used for scientific research. 64. Power to extend Act of 1937 to other effluents. 65. Laundries. Supplemental 66. Appeals to the Minister. 67. Recording and testing of trade effluents. 68. Restriction of disclosure of information. 69. Explanation of Act of 1937. 70. Copies of directions by local authorities to be available to the public. A 2 iii CH. 64 Public Health Act, 1961 9 & 10 ELiz. 2 Section 71. Amendment of s. 22 of London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1953. PART VI MISCELLANEOUS 72. Discharge of steam. 73. Derelict petrol tanks. 74. Power to reduce numbers of pigeons and other birds in built-up areas. 75. Byelaws as to pleasure fairs and roller skating rinks. 76. Byelaws as to seaside pleasure boats. 77. Byelaws as to hairdressers and barbers. 78. Water supply to houses. 79. Discontinuance of reports regarding canal boats. 80. Meaning of " refreshment-house " in s. 89 of Public Health Act, 1936. 81. Summary recovery of damages for negligence. PART VII SUPPLEMENTAL 82. Power to amend local Acts. 83. Saving for law relating to ancient monuments and for planning law. 84. Extension of certain references to Public Health Acts. 85. Expenses. 86. Short title, commencement and repeals. SCHEDULES : First Schedule-Building regulations. Second Schedule-Supplementary provisions concerning sewerage contributions. Third Schedule-Consents required for execution of certain works in streets. Fourth Schedule-Attachment of street lighting equipment to certain buildings. Fifth Schedule-Enactments repealed. iv 9 & 10 ELiz. 2 Public Health Act, 1961 CH. 64 CHAPTER 64 An Act to amend the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1936, relating to building byelaws, to make such amendments of the law relating to public health and the functions of county councils and other local authorities as. are commonly made in local Acts, to amend the law relating to trade effluents and to amend section two hundred and forty-nine of the said Act of 1936. [3rd August, 1961] E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and B Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :- PART I GENERAL 1.--(1) Part II of this Act shall be construed as one with Construction. Part II of the Public Health Act, 1936. (2) Part III of this Act shall be construed as one with Part V of the Public Health Act, 1936. (3) Part V of this Act shall be construed as one with the Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act, 1937, and references in Part V of this Act to that Act of 1937 are references to that Act as extended by orders under section twenty-two of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1953 (under which the Act of 1937 may be applied to areas outside London served by the London sewerage system). CH. 64 Public Health Act, 1961 9 & 10 ELIZ. 2 PAirr I (4) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1936, set out in the following table shall apply in relation to Part IV and Part VI of this Act as if the said Part IV and the said Part VI were contained in that Act. TABLE Section Subject Matter 275 Power of local authority to execute certain work on behalf of owners or occupiers. 283 Form of notices. 284 Authentication of documents. 285 Service of notices. 288 Penalty for obstructing execution of Act. 304 Judges' and justices' liability to rates. 305 Protection of members and officers of local authorities. 341 Power to apply provisions of Act to Crown property. 343 Interpretation. Interpretation. 2.-(1) In this Act "the Minister" means the Minister of Housing and Local Government. (2) Any reference in this Act to a parish council shall include a reference to the council of a borough included in a rural district. (3) In this Act the expression " local authority ", except where the context otherwise requires, means the council of a borough or urban or rural district, and includes the Council of the Isles of Scilly. (4) Any reference in this Act to the medical officer of health, or to a public health inspector, or to the surveyor, shall, in relation to premises in the district of a local authority, mean the medical officer of health, or a public health inspector, or the surveyor, of that local authority. (5) Any reference in this Act to any enactment shall be taken as a reference to that enactment as amended by or under any other Act, including this Act. Extent. 3. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland or, save as otherwise expressly provided, to the administrative county of London. PART II SANITATION AND BUILDINGS Building regulations Power to make 4.-(1) The Minister shall have power to make regulations building for or any of regulations. all the matters set out in sections sixty-one and sixty-two of the Public Health Act, 1936 (being the matters which 2 9 & 10 ELiz. 2 Public Health Act, 1961 CH. 64 local authorities can now regulate by building byelaws), and local PART II authorities shall no longer have power to make building byelaws. Regulations under this section shall be known as building regulations. (2) Any provision contained in building regulations may be made so as to apply generally, or in an area specified in the regu- lations, and the regulations may make different provision for different areas. (3) It shall be the function of every local authority to enforce building regulations in their district. (4) Local authorities shall, in relation to building regulations, have all such functions under sections sixty-four and sixty-five of the Public Health Act, 1936 (which confer power to pass plans, and to enforce building byelaws), as they have in relation to building byelaws ; and building regulations shall provide in appropriate cases for the deposit of plans with local authorities, and for the giving of notices to local authorities. (5) Building regulations may include such supplemental and incidental provisions as appear to the Minister to be expedient.